Cardas makes some very nice 9.5 AWG Teflon jacketed 6N copper multi-strand litz design drawn between ceramic rollers in a nitrogen atmosphere and enameled to prevent oxidation. . I use these and like them a lot. $3.25 foot (x 4 for stereo, so two 8 foot pairs would be $104.00, a relative bargain for cables at this performance level).

You'll be fine so long as you don't go for explicity high-capcitance cable, like Goetz.

NACA5, the recommended cable, is about 20pF/lin m - very low capacitance - but in practice any fairly conventional cable made up of a spaced pair of conductors will work OK with the Nait. The cables you linked to look fine.

Originally posted by hermanv
I sure don't want to start any cable wars, but large gauge speaker wires aren't used because of power handling. They help prevent amplifier damping ratios from being decreased.

but large gauge speaker wires aren't used because of power handling. They help prevent amplifier damping ratios from being decreased

That's a fair point if you have long cables or low-impedance speakers. However - Naims' basic amplifier circuit has 0R22 in series with the output, so it' s a bit moot in this case.

Carl - that shoud be one fun and enjoyable little system. Hope it makes you happy.

If the Nait1 is new to you, or just untouched for 20+years you might like to just check the bias pots haven't drifted. Here's how to set up the Naim amplifier bias (applies whether you are playing wth any Nait, a110, 120. 140, 180, 250 or pair of 135s!)